De amores intensos, de estrofas y versos: Of intense love, of stanzas and verses

Haikus de cuarentena propone un recorrido por los meses en confinamiento al ritmo pausado de las estaciones y de la mano de la “poesía más breve del mundo”. En tiempos en que nuestro habitar diario se transforma, este libro nos invita a encontrarnos y recordar que solo somos un elemento del entorno.

This is a Spanish-language edition of The Latin Deli, Judith Ortiz Cofer's prizewinning collection of short stories, personal essays, and poems. A work rich in longing, love, and remembrance, El deli latino opens a door into the lives of the Puerto Rican immigrants who live in or near an urban New Jersey tenement known as "El Building." The book was selected by Rita Dove, Ashley Montague, and Henry Louis Gates Jr. to receive the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, which recognizes work that has made "important contributions to our understanding of racism or our appreciation of the rich diversity of...

Porque al final recordaremos lo que nos ha hecho sentir. Las taquicardias, las dudas. La incertidumbre a doscientos latidos por minuto. ¡Las ganas! Los abrazos que inundan el alma. Los roces de manos, las miradas, los besos que calan los huesos y las despedidas, las que no pinchan, ni arañan. Al resto, le correremos la cortina, y bajando el telón le apagaremos la luz. Porque cada uno de estos versos te recuerda que la vida sigue, aún cuando cierras la puerta y recorres las afiladas aristas de tu alma ante el espejo. La memoria es fragmentaria y por eso, nos quedaremos con los recuerdos...

Jean Hollander, an accomplished poet, and Robert Hollander, a renowned scholar and master teacher, whose joint translation of the Inferno was acclaimed as a new standard in English, bring their respective gifts to Purgatorio in an arresting and clear verse translation. Featuring the original Italian text opposite the translation, their edition offers an extensive and accessible introduction as well as generous historical and interpretive commentaries that draw on centuries of scholarship and Robert Hollander’s own decades of teaching and reasearch. In the second book of Dante’s epic poem...